Balcom s favorite lecture ON EXAM Thursday sept 26 5 6pm ansc ground floor corridor faculty and staff cook off Thinking About Animals in the 21st Century cid 127 Top Hat questions cid 127 Feral cats can spread human disease and kill songbirds and small rodents Their fights and vocal mating along with the Toms urine markings can ruin a neighborhood Would you support a program to exterminate them Neutral Feral cats more commonly pets cid 127 Feral hogs are a huge threat to native ecosystems and farmers in many states Would you support a program to exterminate them Yes but I would feel bad about it Perceived threat of hogs is worse Normalize it by having TV shows about hunting hogs making it more acceptable 88 of class has experience with companion animals 70 of class has no first hand experience with hunting 39 of class has friends family who raise farm animals 63 of class has read about animals used in research very few have worked with research animals 64 of class enjoys watching wild animals when they are around Census Profile of America by the start of the 21st Century 308 million people as of 2013 80 live in cities or suburbs Increased racial and ethnic diversity Simple Distinctions cid 127 of the population 35 years old baby boomers are aging 60 million of them science and personal views often not in accord with one another cid 127 Objectification vs Personification Rowan Anthropomorphism vs anthrocentrism Harwood 1928 Emotional vs pragmatic responses Thomas 1983 Identification vs objectification Arluke 1988 othering vs personifying Serpell s Model animal factors individual factors effect of culture consider the role of science cid 127 Graph 4 quadrants mathematical model y axis top affect love sympathy identification bottom fear loathing disidentification x axis right utility beneficial to human interest left detrimental to human interests The Sociozoologic Scale Arluke and Sanders 1996 cid 127 Top hat According to Arluke and Sanders 1996 sociozoologic scale a pig on a commercial farm would be defined as Tools cid 127 Good animals Pets Tools Bad animals Freaks human animal mixes Vermin Demons Kellert s Research original attitude scales naturalistic ecologistic humanistic cid 127 moralistic scientistic aesthetic utilitarian dominionistic negativistic neutralistic cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 cid 127 analyze how one animal might be different things on sociozoologic scale or attitudes what other animal sin what contexts could we place in each of these categories where would they be on serpells graph how does an animal symbolically move from one category to another How do we know what animals think and need Anthropomorphism This dog is lonely for his owner put our own feelings on them cid 127 cid 127 cid 127